CDU later: Angela Merkel’s successor

CDU later: Angela Merkel’s successor

For the first time in 16 years Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union is out of Germany’s government. We ask what to expect from Olaf Scholz, the new chancellor. China’s leadership wants to boost the birth rate but discriminates against single mothers; we examine a slow push for equality. And mental-health apps are booming, but the risks are many and the benefits uncertain. Have your say about “The Intelligence” in our survey here. www.economist.com/intelligencesurvey. And for full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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Never-ending storeys: rebuilding Turkey

Never-ending storeys: rebuilding Turkey

It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month....

14 Huhti 202325min

Make the world’s money go ‘round: a bunged-up IMF

Make the world’s money go ‘round: a bunged-up IMF

The International Monetary Fund is sitting on oodles of cash, but failing to disburse it. We examine why China’s lending practices are putting the IMF on a path to irrelevance. Climate change is alrea...

13 Huhti 202325min

File-sharing: America’s huge intelligence leak

File-sharing: America’s huge intelligence leak

A trove of once-secret documents is proving an embarrassment to both America and its allies, and a danger to Ukraine’s planned counter-offensive. The tech industry is shedding workers at a striking pa...

12 Huhti 202324min

Hard pact to follow: the Good Friday Agreement at 25

Hard pact to follow: the Good Friday Agreement at 25

The famed power-sharing deal did its work of sharply reducing sectarian violence, but a quarter-century on it has led to depressingly dysfunctional politics. The next generation of vaccines is already...

11 Huhti 202324min

Home economics: housing markets’ future

Home economics: housing markets’ future

Many people think that with inflation and interest-rate rises abating, the worst effects on housing markets might be over. Not so fast. A study that reignited mask-wearing debates really should not ha...

10 Huhti 202318min

Space invaded: video games’ stunning growth

Space invaded: video games’ stunning growth

These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how things are changing, from gamers’ demographics to the games’ content. And a year after our last conversa...

7 Huhti 202329min

Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention

Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention

Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of Am...

6 Huhti 202326min

Arraigning on his parade: the charges against Donald Trump

Arraigning on his parade: the charges against Donald Trump

Perhaps the only surprising thing about the former president’s arraignment was that it was not followed by big demonstrations—but he did take to the airwaves to seethe. A global rice crisis is brewing...

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